Guns-On-Campus Backers Press On

Idaho’s state Board of Education and all eight of its public college and university presidents came out unanimously and emphatically against a new guns-on-campus bill Monday, but lawmakers are pressing forward anyway, and the bill now appears likely to pass. “I wouldn’t bring it up if I didn’t think it had the votes to get through the committee and the rest of the process,” said Sen. Curt McKenzie, R-Nampa, lead sponsor of the bill and the chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee, where SB 1254 was introduced. McKenzie said he’ll hold a full hearing on the bill on Feb. 12, and after two hours of testimony, the committee will vote on whether to forward it to the full Senate. In 2011, similar legislation passed the House on a 41-28 vote before dying in the same Senate committee/Betsy Russell, SR. More here . (SR photo: Don Soltman, left, president of the Idaho State Board of Education, joins all eight of Idaho’s public college and university presidents Monday to speak out “emphatically” against SB 1254)

Question: Any North Idaho legislator who supports this goofy bill, despite overwhelming opposition from Idaho colleges and community colleges (except for NIC Trustee Todd Banducci), isn’t worthy of re-election. That’s My 2 Cents. What do you think?